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Macron says Google, Facebook could be broken up

French president Emmanuel Macron in an interview with Wired magazine warned that Google and Facebook are becoming too big to be governed and could face being dismantled. He suggested the internet giants should pay for the disruption they cause in society, and should follow European privacy regulations. Macron said the firms are "not just too big to fail, but too big to be governed".

Opinion

Sometimes in chess, a sacrifice brings victory. Theresa May should pay heed to the example of Slovakia's premier, Iveta Radicova, who sacrificed her job in order to get difficult euro bailout legislation through the Bratislava parliament.

The EU commission is giving more time to the Swiss government to endorse a deal that would put various sectorial agreements to access the single market under one deal. Nevertheless, after Brexit, the EU has had enough of exceptions.